Crime: Rural Areas

(asked on 12th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to reduce (a) rural crime rates and (b) incidences of hare coursing; and what the timeframe is for implementing those plans.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 20th July 2021

We remain committed in our ambition to reduce levels of rural crime; including those offences related to hare coursing. That is why, we are supporting the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on its legislative proposals set out in the Action Plan on Animal Welfare, which was published on 12 May 2021.

This department is also assisting with police’s operational and strategic efforts to reduce levels of rural crime, through the ongoing recruitment of 20,000 additional police officers, and continued funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit.

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